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GROUP EXHIBITION

Unsentimental Education BB&M 30 January–9 March 2024 Seoul
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Unsentimental Education offers a glimpse into the practices of four contemporary Korean artists, all men in their thirties, who have garnered increasing critical attention in recent years for their work in the mediums of painting and moving image. Putting an oblique spin on ‘sentimental education,’ alluding to the 19th-century Flaubert novel which the author called ‘the moral history of the men of my generation,’ this exhibition sheds light on the sensibilities and aesthetic strategies of an emerging generation negotiating the contours of seismic social and cultural shifts, while traversing the increasingly permeable divide between the real and the virtual, figuration and abstraction, lived experience and symbolic sublimation.

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Installation view, Unsentimental Education, BB&M, Seoul, 2024.
Installation view, Unsentimental Education, BB&M, Seoul, 2024.
Installation view, Unsentimental Education, BB&M, Seoul, 2024.
Installation view, Unsentimental Education, BB&M, Seoul, 2024.

Artists Exhibiting

Heecheon Kim contemporary artist
Heecheon Kim b. 1989 Follow +
Sikyung Sung contemporary artist
Sikyung Sung b. 1991 Follow +
Young-Jun Tak contemporary artist
Young-Jun Tak b. 1989 Follow +
Jeongsu Woo contemporary artist
Jeongsu Woo Follow +

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About the Gallery

Since its inception in 2009 as an art consultancy in Seoul, BB&M has been instrumental in the rise of some of the most acclaimed contemporary Korean artists on the international stage. BB&M’s current iteration as an independent gallery is a collaboration between James B. Lee (Founding Principal) and Si Young Hur (Principal), who brings extensive experience as director and partner in Seoul’s leading galleries, where she was responsible for exhibitions of such artists as Thomas Struth, Olafur Eliasson, Liam Gillick, and Yun Hyong-keun, a key figure in Dansaekhwa.

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Seoul 10, Seongbuk-ro 23-gil, Seongbuk-gu
BBM contemporary art gallery in Seoul South Korea
BB&M
10, Seongbuk-ro 23-gil, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, South Korea
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